Rips may refer to:
Places
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Rips, Sarandë
Rips is a location in the southeastern part of Albania where a secondary border crossing point between Albania and Greece
Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on ...
, location in Albania on the border with Greece
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De Rips
De Rips is a village east of Helmond and Eindhoven in southern part of the Netherlands. Until the late 1990s it formed the municipality of Bakel and Milheeze alongside Milheeze and Bakel, but in 1997 it was forced to merge with the larger Gemer ...
, a village in the Netherlands
People
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Eliyahu Rips
Eliyahu Rips ( he, אליהו ריפס; russian: Илья Рипс; lv, Iļja Ripss; born 12 December 1948) is an Israeli mathematician of Latvian origin known for his research in geometric group theory. He became known to the general public fo ...
(born 1948), Israeli mathematician
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Lance Rips
Lance Jeffrey Rips (born December 19, 1947) is an American psychologist and professor in the Department of Psychology at Northwestern University. Before joining Northwestern in 1994, he taught at the University of Chicago for nineteen years. His ...
(born 1948), American psychologist
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Nicolaia Rips
Nicolaia Anna Rips (b. August 19, 1998) is an American author. She is the author of ''Trying to Float'', a memoir about her childhood in New York's Chelsea Hotel. Born in New York City, Nicolaia is the daughter of Michael Rips (a writer and la ...
(born 1998), American author
Fictional characters
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Rip Van Winkle
"Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by the American author Washington Irving, first published in 1819. It follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who meets mysterious Dutchmen, imbibes their liquor and falls aslee ...
, a fictional person out of time from the eponymous story
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Rip Hunter
Rip Hunter is a fictional time traveling hero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer Jack Miller and artist Ruben Moreira, the character first appeared in ''Showcase'' #20 (May 1959). Following three more appe ...
, a fictional DC Comics superhero
Other uses
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''Rips'' (album), 2014 debut studio album by American indie rock band Ex Hex
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RIPS (Re-Inforce Programming Security), a software static code analysis tool
** RIPS Technologies, the company that publishes
RIPS
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rips (slang), lines of cocaine in
Bruce County
Bruce County is a county in Southwestern Ontario, Canada comprising eight lower-tier municipalities and with a 2016 population of 66,491. It is named for James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin and 12th Earl of Kincardine, sixth Governor General of the P ...
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Letterkenny
Letterkenny ( ga, Leitir Ceanainn , meaning 'hillside of the O'Cannons'), nicknamed 'the Cathedral Town', is the largest and most populous town in County Donegal, a county in Ulster, the northern province in Ireland. Letterkenny lies on the R ...
, Ontario
See also
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Rips complex, an abstract simplicial complex
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Rips machine In geometric group theory, the Rips machine is a method of studying the action of groups on R-trees. It was introduced in unpublished work of Eliyahu Rips in about 1991.
An R-tree is a uniquely arcwise-connected metric space in which every arc i ...
, an R-tree action group study method
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Rip (disambiguation)
Rest in peace (RIP), a phrase from the Latin (), is sometimes used in traditional Christian services and prayers, such as in the Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican, and Methodist denominations, to wish the soul of a decedent eternal rest and peace.
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